WCP3641

[1]

Foreign Office

September 27 1853.

Sir,¹

With reference to your Letter of the 5 Instant, I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon² to state to you that M^r. Wallace should apply to the Admiralty, when he is ready to proceed on his Scientific Expedition to the Eastern Seas, in order that he may be informed whether an opportunity then exists for a Passage in one of Her Majesty’s Ships to Singapore, as the vessels now preparing for the East Indies will have sailed before

The Secretary to the Geographical Society [2] before November next.

I am, Sir, | your most obedient, humble servant | H U Addington³

1853 Foreign Office Rec^d. Sept 29. ref. A. R. Wallace⁵